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Ontario police forces to focus on education rather than enforcement of new powers
Ontario government alters new, temporary COVID-19 police powers after widespread backlash The government reversed course a day later, and the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police said Monday people should not be afraid to go outside.The association’s spokesman, Joe Couto, says police forces had to come out quickly on Friday to assure the public that they would not be randomly stopping people.Many Ontario police forces won’t use new COVID-19 powers to conduct random stopsCouto says arbitrarily stopping people would be unethical, unenforceable and police forces do not have the resources to do it.He says police will instead focus their enforcement efforts on large gatherings of more than five people.